I'm not sure what the best free non-software license is. That is, a license that respects the public's freedom for things which are software, but not functional software – a digital manual for a program, not the program software itself, for example.

I'm sure who writes the most popular licenses used in this way is, though: Creative Commons.

“teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records”